Re: NoteHead X-offset, conflict with ly:grob-relative-coordinate

[Colin Hall]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 08:25:00PM -0500, Paul Morris wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > Well, quoting
> > 
> > NR 5.5.1 Aligning objects:
> > 
> > Note: Many objects have special positioning considerations which cause
> > any setting of X-offset or Y-offset to be ignored or modified, even
> > though the object supports the self-alignment-interface. Overriding
> > the X-offset or Y-offset properties to a fixed value causes the
> > respective self-alignment property to be disregarded.
> > 
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/aligning-objects
> 
> Ah, ok, so that page is already documenting this.  
> 
> 
> > But I found no hint about it in the IR
> 
> Would it make sense if under "X-offset" in the IR it said something like this?
> 
> "The horizontal amount that this object is moved relative to its X-parent.  
> The amount may be set directly or may be set to be calculated by procedures 
> in order to achieve alignment with the parent object."  
> 
> 
> 
> -Paul

I've created a documentation enhancement tracker for this, Paul, see:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3022

Thanks for the report, and also to Keith and Thomas for the analysis.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall